What were they thinking? #1:

This is a new weekly column where I take a look at the weird, the bad and the oddly cool in comics this week. While this is the first of many to come, it is rather light. While I don’t review all the new single issues that I read, these are the highlights of that stood out as graphic oddities. Keep in mind I am one man with a small budget and buy what I can. I don’t read everything that comes out each week. Going off of what I got –

VAMPIRES!?! Are we really still so obsessed with vampires? And even the Twilight lore?

First off, we have X-MEN issue #2. Have just finished up one of the most culminating and devastating story arcs ever, vampires arrive in the wake of their tragedy. My biggest problem with this is, well, vampires… I like vampires, but to have their newest foe being the follow up to Bastion in the ‘Second Coming’ arc seem so weak and – irrelevant. While I understand Marvel’s use of a less threatening group of villains of giving the readers a break from the week-to-week emotional draining intensity of each chapter, I’m still looking for more answers and resolution to SC. Regardless, I shall remain, always, a reader of the X-Men – but really, what were they thinking?

Next, is Archie & Friends #146 as the gang have a two-part Twilight-esq special. While it might be a bit of a parody… really? What were they thinking?

[*SPOILERS AHEAD*]
Lastly, for the first post of WWTT?, is X-Force: Sex & Violence #2. And WOW. This is not a negative critique, by any means, but a ‘what they thinking’ by not making this happen sooner? In this issue we learn why the guild of assassins are after Domino and why! Aside from the development of this fun miniseries, we finally get to see Domino and Wolverine give into the sexual tension that has been building between the two since she joined the mutant black-ops crew. Yeah, for one full page of this -ish, we see hot, steamy and rough sexy-time between two of the most dangerous mutants alive. Not to mention the witty banter, violence and a lot of really bad assassins…

THIS WEEKS MUST READS:
Walking Dead #76
Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #1
Unwritten vol. 2 TPB

Until next week, keep on reading!

Tags: archie, archie & friends, comics, sex, twilight, vampires, violence, wolverine, x-factor, x-men

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